The stairs
arrived! And therein lies a tale of a company NOT to deal with
and a contractor to stick with.

But first, at the beginning of the week, they put the drawers by the
closet and started the floor.

They also tiled the bathroom. Remember the fancy tiles?
Where 33 were ordered and ONE showed up? Well, when Scott was
phoned again he went to pick them up. This time there were...66!

All together..ooohhh, aaahhhh!

Oh, and the sink was put in.

And then! The stairs! They arrive! But the stair
delivery
team decides that they can't put them in and the guy who
measured them (their guy) should come back and put them in
himself!
And they leave! So when I get home, this is the wonderful job
those dip-sticks have left!

To show you the next picture I had to brave the ladder that
replaced the Stairway To Heaven.

But Scott has an idea. He demolishes part of the closet wall to
the bedroom and brings back the brick layers to help. (And BTW,
Scott finds an ancient 'knob-and-tube' electrical circuit I didn't want
to demolish the house to find. This means that now I had work on
the weekend to replace the d*&$ thing since Scott originally gave
me until Monday! One of the main reasons is that this UNGROUNDED
line runs the main computer!!!!! As of the weekend, this was
fixed.)

So on Friday. Guess what!!!

This calls for a toast!!!

And oddly enough, that night Toronto also celebrates with
fireworks!! (Okay, I have no idea why these were let off--but
they were.)

The focus
of this year's event is on activities highlighting children'ssafety. Some of the featured
safety activities include: a car seat clinic, achildren's fingerprinting
station, a family BBQ hosted by Enbridge Gas, watersafety displays, fire
extinguisher training, a water display by the WilliamLyon Mackenzie Fire Boat, and a
helicopter demonstration by the Canadian ArmedForces. A 10-minute
fireworks display at 9:30 p.m. will wrap-up the evening'sevents.

I still say it was
because of the stairs.

Keira enjoyed some time in the room.

So that weekend it's dinner on the deck!

We pause for our usual Riverdale Wildlife story. Kendal heard an
odd noise from a neighbour's back deck. We noticed there was a
hole in the insulation between it and the roof.

Then we saw why it was there.

See the paw at extreme digital zoom? There is one, maybe a family
of raccoons under there.

Sunday night is was time for the portable Victrola and my 'new' 78s
from
the antique show that weekend.

Our final images are NOT of one of us with a glass of wine (you might
get the right--er, wrong--impression) they are of tests made of a new
lighting system they will start using on the CN tower the week before
Canada Day.